Modern

Famous quotes containing the word modern:

“A modern author would have died in infancy in a ruder age.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“The critical method which denies literary modernity would appear—and even, in certain respects, would be—the most modern of critical movements.”
—Paul Deman (1919–1983)

“Most of our modern portrait painters are doomed to absolute oblivion. They never paint what they see. They paint what the public sees, and the public never sees anything.”
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)